The position of Frank Ullrich as a representative of the German Bundestag on the supervisory board of the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) begins to falter.

Despite his great success as an athlete and trainer in the GDR sports system, the SPD member of parliament from Thuringia, chairman of the sports committee, claims that he never knowingly came into contact with doping.

Reports by the former medical officer of the German Skiers' Association of the GDR (DSLV), Hans-Joachim Kampf, to the GDR State Security Service contradict this assertion.

Accordingly, Ullrich, like the entire first guard of the GDR biathlon, should be doped with the testosterone preparation Oral-Turinabol.

Michael Reinsch

Correspondent for sports in Berlin.

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Kampf, a doctor in Dresden and led by the State Security from March 1977 as an unofficial employee (IM) Schmied, wrote a handwritten "Brief assessment of the effectiveness of the UM in the preparation of the OWS 1984 in Sarajevo" in March 1984 and signed it with his real name.

It is available to the FAZ.

UM stands for supporting measures, GDR euphemism for doping.

OWS stands for Olympic Winter Games.

The drug of choice was the anabolic steroid Oral-Turinabol (OT) manufactured by VEB Jenapharm.

Ullrich listed

"In the biathlon, the influencing with OT was planned and implemented according to the principles tried and tested in previous years," it says.

For Ullrich, Olympic champion in the Lake Placid biathlon in 1980, the Sarajevo Games were his third;

at the opening ceremony he was the flag bearer of the GDR team.

In a report on the "Application concept and M. of the DSLV in the training year 1985/86" Kampf reported in July 1985 that 21 biathletes in squad circles 1 and 2 in four cycles from October 1985 to January 1986 each with a total of 450 milligrams of oral Turinabol should be doped.

The list also includes Ullrich, who was 27 at the time.

"As far as my name on the list is concerned, I was surprised," writes Ullrich on request: "On the one hand because, to my knowledge, I have never taken Oral-Turinabol.

On the other hand, because the doping information, if I read the handwritten report correctly, refers to the 85/86 season - i.e. to a period in which I was no longer an active athlete.

In the late summer of 85 I had to undergo a disc operation and then officially end my active sports career.

As early as the 84/85 season, for personal reasons, I rarely and individually trained and only took part in two races.”

Werner Franke from Heidelberg, professor emeritus for cell and molecular biology and who uncovered systematic GDR doping, told the FAZ that with these files, Ullrich's doping past was no longer characterized by assumptions, but proved by facts: "Vague is no longer allowed be.

Now it's documented.” Through his work on the function and instrumentalisation of sport in the GDR for the German Bundestag's commission of inquiry, Franke has access to a huge archive.

The application by the CDU for the meeting of the sports committee this Wednesday to remove Ullrich from the NADA supervisory board has been postponed due to Ullrich's illness.

However, the Union expects that Ullrich will not take the seat on the supervisory board at the meeting on April 26, as the sports committee will not meet again until April 27.

Anyone who sits on the supervisory board of an organization whose main purpose is the fight against doping must be beyond any doubt as to their own past in connection with doping, the application says: "This is not the case with Frank Ullrich."

Ullrich, on the other hand, insists to the FAZ: “I never knowingly received Oral Turinabol or any other doping agent.

My motto as an athlete and later also as a trainer was success through good training, through the hardest personal commitment - nothing else.

When it came to training aids, I assumed that they were vitamin and mineral supplements that help with regeneration.”